Archaeology Notes
Event ID 647423
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
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NB11SW 1 1161 1479.
Name applies to a cluster of shielings on the N side of Abhainn a' Chlair Bhig. {OS 1:10,000 map, 1973, shows a close group of four shieling-huts, centred NB 1162 1480, with a further two on the S side of Abhainn a' Chlair Bhig, at NB 1162 1475, and three, also S of Abhainn a' Chlair Bhig, at NB 1166 1475, NB 1167 1474 and NB 1168 1473. Described variously as 'Old Shielings' and 'Beehive Huts', they are situated at 70m OD, and, with the exception of that at NB 1162 1479, shown as a rectangle, all are shown as stylised circles.}
Name Book, Ross-shire (Insular), No. 114 p.9 (compiled 1851)